Nor would the explanations of Sir
William Dawson have fared any better: it is very doubtful whether
either of them could escape unscathed today from a synod of the
Free Church of Scotland, or of any of the leading orthodox bodies
in the Southern States of the American Union.[[261]]
How unsatisfactory all such rationalism must be to a truly
theological mind is seen not only in the dealings with Prof.
Robertson Smith in Scotland and Prof. Woodrow in South Carolina,
but most clearly in a book published in 1886 by Monseigneur
Haussmann de Wandelburg. Among other things, the author was Prelate
of the Pope's House-hold, a Mitred Abbot, Canon of the Holy
Sepulchre, and a Doctor of Theology of the Pontifical University at
Rome, and his work is introduced by approving letters from Pope
Leo XIII and the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Monseigneur de Wandelburg
scorns the idea that the salt column at Usdum is not the statue of
Lot's wife; he points out not only the danger of yielding this
evidence of miracle to rationalism, but the fact that the divinely.
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